Zhankun Dai, Crashing Exercises at Vanguard Gallery, Shanghai
Crashing Exercises by Zhankun Dai, at Vanguard Gallery, Shanghai, 29 May – 26 July 2025. You don’t walk into Crashing Exercises, you breach it. A fractured fuselage leans like a wounded threshold at the gallery’s entrance, and already the air feels charged with a hush that is anything but peac
Every system contains within itself the seeds of its own transcendence
As digital infrastructures increasingly shape not only our environments but also the architectures of subjectivity itself, Console Spirituality, curated by Vienna Kim and Benoît Palop (LAN Party) for Feral File, emerges as a precise, almost liturgical inquiry into the threshold where gaming logic,
Inside Art Basel 2025: New Sections, Old Tensions, and Evolving Visions
In an art fair landscape that is increasingly crowded and marked by growing pressures, from rising costs and fluctuating sales to the proliferation of alternative events, Art Basel responds with an innovative format: Premiere, a new section designed to welcome small and mid-sized galleries with a fr
The Saturation of Vision: Apathy in the Age of Scrolling
It’s no longer a matter of visibility. The images are already here. Everywhere. At every moment.We don’t need to seek them out, they find us. They pass through us, slip into the gaps of our attention, strike the retina, overlap, are forgotten. Art, video art, design, politics, advertising, pain,
Print as Witness: Fakewhale at WUF Basel 2025: Celebrating Paper
Fakewhale is pleased to participate as official presenting partner of WUF Basel 2025: Celebrating Paper, an event entirely dedicated to publishing in the fields of contemporary art and photography. This special occasion will take place June 17–18, 2025, at the WUF Lounge & Studio, located on t
Monica Bonvicini at Capitain Petzel: It is Night Outside
There’s a moment, just as you cross the gallery’s threshold, when the darkness implied by the title slips in, not as a lack of light, but as an existential condition. “It is Night Outside”: a phrase that doesn’t merely describe but warns. What is this night? A historical moment? A mental s
Nico Vascellari: “Pastorale” at Palazzo Reale, Milan
“I remember swallowing a cherry pit as a child…” From this very first line, Nico Vascellari invites us to think of the body as a field to be sown, a fertile clod where fear can blossom into vision. It reads like an unexpected allegory for the entire exhibition: Pastorale is not a refuge from h
The Spectacle of the Void: Art Without an Object
In the most extreme forms of conceptual art, the artistic gesture tends to vanish, dissolving into the thought that generates it. The “invisible artwork” emerges as both paradox and provocation, a declaration of war. It offers no object, no image, no body to contemplate, only an idea that endure
“Rushes” at Fluentum, Berlin: video art that breathes through the ruins of the real
What’s left of lived experience when it’s constantly filtered, fragmented, and reframed through screens? Perhaps only an echo, a digital residue flickering between apps, feeds, and lenses, or something more elusive: a faint yet persistent awareness that everything we do, no matter how mundane or
Visual Capital: Designing for the Feed, Aesthetics, Algorithms, and the Creation of Works Made to Be Seen
Visual Value as the Dominant Currency An image is no longer simply looked at, it’s evaluated. In a split second, the eye decides whether to linger or scroll past. Artworks are no longer contemplative objects; they are visual interfaces designed to strike, assert themselves, and embed into the fl
